{"id":67644,"date":"2017-05-31T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=67644"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:07:24","slug":"man-chopped-dumped-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/31\/man-chopped-dumped-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Man chopped, dumped in toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It apparently occurred due to a fight which started at a local tavern. It is believed that the suspect was called a &#8220;Shangaan from Stoffberg&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He became angry and unleashed deadly force onto the man, before the body was dumped.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered a few hours later by someone who wanted to use the bathroom and police were alerted.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested and has been identified as Ephraim Mokwena. He was meant to appear in court last week but was apparently assaulted in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the man was taken to hospital for treatment and will make another appearance before court on charges of murder this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The family of the deceased are yet to identify his body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a police report, the deceased is yet unidentified. He was chopped into pieces with an axe and dumped in a public toilet in Avalon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":59364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7008,1049,2434,7007,7006,1088],"class_list":["post-67644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-chopped","tag-danger","tag-dumped","tag-dumped-in-toilet","tag-man-chopped","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["chopped","danger","dumped","dumped in toilet","Man chopped","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}